[General] Ordering Acrylic

[Joshua Pritt]

Put me down for some of that battle bot plastic. I have no idea how much.
How much do you think?
On Jun 13, 2012 5:51 PM, "John Kelly" <candleknight at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
> I'm getting ready to order a crap ton of acrylic (Plexiglass) and
> polycarbonate (Lexan) soon. It's much cheaper both in materials cost and in
> shipping to order a bunch at a time, so I though I'd ask if anybody else
> wants to add to the order and/or split a large sheet. Ordering this way
> will be about 30-40% cheaper than buying at Lowes/Home Depot (factoring in
> shipping costs, taxes, discounts).
>
> I'm ordering from: www.estreetplastics.com
>
> This stuff is super useful, and can be used to make robot parts, gears,
> project enclosures, mechanical mechanisms, templates for moulds, jigs for
> other projects, and about a 100 billion other things.
>
> Check out the site to see what kind of materials they have that you might
> want to get.
>
> Cutting it up into 8" x 12" pieces makes it fit really nicely into the
> laser cutter, so I'll mostly be ordering 24" x 48" sheets so that I can cut
> them into 12 nice even pieces for the laser cutter.
>
> I'll personally be ordering various quantities of:
> *Clear acrylic: 1/16", 1/8", 3/16", 1/4"
> *Transparent red, blue, and green
> *Florescent Green
> *Mirrored 1/8"  (can be cut/engraved and combined with a light source to
> make really neat optical projections )
> *Polycarbonate: 1/16", 1/8", 1/4"
> *And one 18" X 36" piece of 1/2" polycarbonate to cut in half to use as
> the door to the freeze dryer vacuum chamber
>
> Since it's cheaper to order in bulk, I'll be ordering more than I need
> right now. If anyone would like to split a piece let me know. Also let me
> know if you'd like to add something of your own to the order to save on
> shipping.
>
> -Candleknight
> (John Kelly)
>
> P.S. Take note that they also sell the styrene sheets used for the vacuum
> forming machine.
>
>
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